Weekend Update 1
Outdoor Grows • GDP • BBK • Purple Urkle
Our weather up here has been gorgeous this week with temps much higher than normal for late September, but things are definitely feeling like fall in the mornings. Overnight lows are now hovering in the mid 50s, but yesterday we hit a high of nearly 95 degrees!
The latest NWS forecasts are predicting the arrival of our first winter storm of the season by the middle of next week. I'm going to have to get creative in how best to cover the larger plants outside and try to keep them from getting rained on too heavily. The smaller plants can be moved under cover, but the larger ones are just going to have to get wet. I deal with this every year since my usual harvest time for most of these is the second week of October. Our first rains usually come in the first week, and it looks like this year will be no exception.
So lets get started!
GDP Week 7
The overnight lows have reached the "magic" temps where the GDP likes it to start turning purple. GDP #1 and #3 are starting to show purple tinges within the buds and on the edges of the tiny bud leaves. If you recall, GDP #2 started changing color around week 7 but the fan leaves changed first. This time around it is the bud leaves that are turning first.
GDP #1
This plant has nearly fully recovered from her soil issues of a few weeks ago and has been bulking up and frosting up a lot over the last week. She is definitely showing the most purple right now.
GDP #3
GDP #3 was never brought indoors to flower and flowered naturally under the gradually changing natural light cycle. As a result, it is about a week behind GDP #1 in both bud development and color change. Still... You can start to see the distinctive purple/red hues emerging from the bud leaves along with a respectable frosting up!
Blueberry Kush
The various BBK clones are coming along nicely. #3 is putting on the frost now too right along with the smaller single cola clones. The white residue you see on some of the leaves are from my milk/water sprays I have been applying to keep the Powdery Mildew at bay. With the cool nights and a rising humidity, PM is a constant problem with the outdoor crop.
Purple Urkle
Still no sign of any color change from the Urkles, but I expect that we should start seeing it soon if they are going to change. They are at about week 5.5 right now and since these were brought into flower naturally, I am not completely sure where they are in their flowering cycle. Based on the bud density and the amount of frosting, I think week 5 or 6 is about right.
White Rhino Male Seed Update
I have still not unbagged the remaining two White Rhino male flower branches. I did unbag one a week ago and it didn't look ready. The flowers were still green, so I decided to let the other two go longer. Since the leaves on that one branch I unbagged looked nice and healthy I figured that it was safe to let the other two go. I will probably take a look on Sunday and post an update just on that project.
A personal tragedy for our family this week...
This has been a VERY rough week for me personally after we lost a beloved pet cat to the wilds of the forest behind our house. His name was Kimba and he was my little helper out in the garden. It has been extremely difficult to find the motivation to even look at the plants because every where I turn, I am reminded of my special little helper who loved to go with me on my daily rounds out back. I plan to post a tribute to him here in my journal later this weekend. I'm hoping that the 420 staff doesn't ban me for going off-topic and posting a few off-topic pictures of my very special little friend here.
I'm doing it anyway, but I hope it doesn't get me into trouble!
Stay tuned for round #2 when I will focus on the progress of our indoor plants all now safely vegging in our new Air Pots.
Until then... Thanks for reading! 
